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KIM JONG-IL just might be a Nukes-Toting Murderous Sick-and-Sickly Napoleon-Complexing Megalomaniacal Demi-Dr.-Evil Dictator With a Don King 'Do, but we've got to give him this: He's an utter joy for many political cartoonists to draw.
On the (lifted) heels of former president Clinton's mission to 'Lil Kim's North Korea to win release of two jailed Al Gore employees, cartoon readers have been treated to a new wave of caricatures. Oh so many ways to render that olive-green uniform and those Bono-esque specs and the reach-for-the-sky haircut. Here are a trio of This Riffster's fave caricatures in recent days. You're invited to vote for your favorite. And if you've got others you like, feel free to share them links.
STEVE BREEN (courtesy of cagle.com)
CAM CARDOW (courtesy of cagle.com)
TAYLOR JONES (courtesy of cagle.com)
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By Michael Cavna |
August 11, 2009; 12:45 PM ET
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Posted by: seismic-2 | August 11, 2009 1:19 PM
OK, I've read Tank Day 2. I'm presuming that Goodell's face is still talking to Cheney's voice on the phone. It seem's "kill him" was just for shock value. Now we're listening to Goodell whine about being emasculated cause the Feds got to punish Vick before he could, while Cheney is the voice of reason.
Funny how when you censor something the effect is that everyone immediately thinks of the worst possible scenario. Fortunately WaPo is not the sole distributor of this information and as a result it's exercise in censorship is meaningless.
Posted by: jimbo1949 | August 11, 2009 5:59 PM
Wednesday's "Tank" is the first strip in the series that has a valid editorial point. Even if Monday's "kill him" was just to shock, it still remains gratuitous. Perhaps a more even-handed solution would have been to kill Monday's (and maybe Tuesday's) strip(s), and run the rest of the sequence.
Speaking of offensiveness, I don't understand why the Taylor Jones comic even made it to the podium for selection. It reminds me of the ugliest Hirohito images used in WWII propaganda.
There were plenty of better options to choose, see
http://www.cagle.com/news/NorthKorea09/main.asp
for a representative selection (two of the best are Cardow on page 1, and Glez on page 4).
Posted by: kilby | August 12, 2009 6:44 AM
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Kim Jong Il as a Vulcan? I don't get it.